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What's the big deal? A median household income of $10k means each salaried member is around $5.5k at the median level (slightly higher then $5k as need to account minority of households with only one person working).

This mean 50% of the people in Singapore are making more than $5.5k, so if you do a crude extrapolation outwards there's probably around 25% making $8k and above. That's 1 in 4 working adults in Singapore, so yar definitely one can "easily" find an above $8k dude hanging around easily.

This is an expected mathematical outcome, not some incongruence to reality which is what the letter writer seems to be implying.

many can means high in number but not high in percentage.
take eg a hundred thousands is many but if represent as percent of two million labour force
that is quite low.

HWZ high ses?